hey guys i wanted to see if anybody knows how many amps the heater in the mirrors pull?

AJ

 

1.5 Amps - Each - 3.0 Total

 

sounds good I got them hooked up but now here's a really stupid question when you turn the heaters on the marker lights and blinkers go out on the mirrors is that normal or do I have to rip apart the wiring?

 

Not normal. Something is definitely wrong.

 

What could it be though? I wired everything up according to a forum post.

Here is the post http://powerstrokenation.com/forums/...d.php?t=131898

Of course my luck this would happen.....

AJ

 

Here you go.

All the wires can be ran under the dash and do not have to go into the engine compartment. I have the e99 so my plugs did not even come close to the stock one and had to build my own Delphi plug kit. Pretty simple plug to build. As for the wires coming of the mirrors, there should 7 wires coming out of the mirror side.
BLACK/WHITE-HEAT
BLACK-GROUND
WHITE-TURN SIGNAL
BROWN-RUNNING LIGHTS
PURPLE, YELLOW, GREEN should match the factory wiring for the mirror function.

On driver side for left turn signal go into the wire harness under your steering wheel which should be raped in electrical and wiring loom peel that off and tap your white wire into the green/white for left turn.

For your pass side mirror turn signal will also be white, that wire will also go under the steering wheel and tap into the white/blue wire.

Driver side running light would tap into the brown wire behind the headlight switch.

Passenger side running light can be tapped into the pass floor kick panel. Take that panel off and find the factory wiring harness only two wires, a black for the ground and brown for power to the outside cab lights. If you don't have the roof lights the wire harness should still be down there and will end with a female plug.

Heat wire, I built a fuse/relay panel under the hood with a bossmann fuse/relay block to run the switches that I have in my F-650 dash panel. Run the black/white heat wire from the pass side mirror to a relay along with driverside to the same relay. Run a switch from your dash to that relay, ground and power the relay.

RELAY numbers: 85-to switch 87-to fused power 30-from heated mirrors 86-to ground


There is probably a better way to run the heat into the relay but sense there were to wires from both mirrors I just tied them to gether at the relay.

I ran the turn signal and heat wire for the pass side mirror behind the dash using a snake feeder to hide them as clean as possible. its much easier to get behind the glovebox if you remove it pretty simple.

Click on this link.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...l#post13613546

 

A bad ground could cause the lights to dim or stop working when the heaters are turned on.

Chris

 

Thank you for all of the help! I went ahead and ripped the doors apart and checked my wiring. I had heater + and ground flipped on both mirror interconnector. The heaters and lights now function flawless.

AJ

 

Glad you got it worked out and reported back.